Molester assaults girl in West Rogers Park

April 04, 2003

CHICAGO — Police on Thursday were looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl outside her West Rogers Park home Wednesday night.

The girl was attempting to get her bicycle onto a back porch of her apartment building in the 6500 block of North Claremont Avenue at about 6 p.m. when a man asked if she knew some other person who lived there, according to Chicago police spokesman Thomas Donegan.

The girl said she did not know the person and the man then fondled her and she ran away, Donegan said.

The man is described as Hispanic, about 20 years old, 5 foot 8, 160 pounds, with black hair, a small mustache, olive complexion and wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt over a black shirt, blue pants and black shoes, police said. The man fled on a black mountain bike, Donegan said.